lost thing found, again

My Place, Photographs

A few days ago I lost my red metal cane. Only recently have been making an effort to walk with my cane, but it isn’t always to be found where I left it. It stands alone, although it falls down easily and has in fact pounded a quarter-dollar size spot into the crook…when it falls forward it smacks against the surface hard enough to make a resounding crack! and has started to wear the baked red paint away.

The past several days have been perfect for looking around the place, and trimming trees damaged by snow damage earlier this year, and to feed my lust for fresh subjects for my camera. Everything is overgrown here on “the farm” and I recognize the chores…but I don’t have what it takes to keep on top of the challenge. My flower beds are unruly and unpredictable, and are lucky if they get a lick and a promise of proper tending. There is an abundance of ground-covering, especially Myrtle, which is lush and tall enough to hide things that fall into its clutches.

After a long walk around the yard, down the lanes into the back 40 where tree and plant debris hangs out along the fences to deteriorate, ranging from grass clippings to good size tree branches that came down during windstorms or wet snow loads. I had a hunch that my Red Cane may have ended up in a pile of debris and hauled off to the outer limits to be buried.

No luck in the debris piles. By time I got back up to the house, checked the Lil Kim Lilacs and flowering trees that I had worked on the other day, tired and ready to sit down…I was about to go in the house, when on another hunch decided to check the maze area and under the beginning Clematis. Sure enough, a streak of red and a glimpse of the vinyl stand, there was my cane.

We did a little victory dance. 🙂

Here are some random shots I took of the general area. (All photos are ©Sometimes, 2021)

Myrtle blossom.
The Western side yard. The original Japanese Cherry Host-tree and offshoots. Shrubs in mid-photo are Red Holly, they bloomed and berried profusely this year.

Money Plants, these thing volunteered all over the place, and they are so pretty they may stay.

Dandelion.

mea culpa … now, here is a real Japanese Flowering Cherry tree. The big one is a Plum.)

My Place, photos, This and That

In the interest of truth and wisdom, I have to issue a correction — dealing with my misidentification of flowering trees.

I mistakenly identified my beautiful tree with the purple foliage and explosion of gorgeous pink blossoms as a Japanese Flowering Cherry. In fact, the tree in question is a PLUM tree. I am not sure what its real name is, but I will find out by asking the nursery where it came from.

However…before I drown in protests, I hasten to add that there IS indeed a Japanese Flowering Cherry tree out in my yard right next to the mis-identified Plum tree. I personally planted both of the flowering trees about 20 years ago.

Here’s the thing: Several years ago the Cherry tree developed a serious illness, and gradually died. The branches formed a pleasing shape any way, and when I noticed that several new little shoots were coming out of the ground I decided to leave them alone and see what happened. Gradually the old tree deteriorated, and lost upper branches to the elements. I let the tree trunk remain as a framework for the new shoots to climb on. Two or three years ago I discovered a few flowers on the tree.

(Photos and story ©Sometimes, 2021)

  • Here we can see the remaining structure of the original tree, and the several new shoots reaching from the root base.
  • Beautiful blossoms.
  • growths on the old branch; evidence of damage of previous years.
  • This year many more blossoms on the CHERRY tree. Shown here is the new growth coming up from the ground adjacent to the structure of the old.
  • PLUM tree, overloaded with blossoms, branches drooping.
    to the left, part of the Lil’ Kim Lilac which had been injured in the recent ic storm.

picture of success is a little red parrot tulip on my blog finally fixed the photo app….maybe

This and That
(Ready or not…

I have been experiencing some awful problems with my photos. So if you are looking at this lovely red tulip it is a cause for celebration, or at least a little cheer.

My photo collection has grown slowly but surely over the past decade. This is a good thing. But when I decided I was flooding my photo apps with pics and duplicates and copies of the duplicates….it was time for copying ALL of the photos onto a portable hard drive so that space on my C:/ could be freed up for work space.

I will cut to the chase here, sparing readers the gory details. Except for one, which is that somehow the gremlins dumped ALL of the contents of my main hard drive into one giant photo file…something like 21,000 images, at one point.

Well, its the moment of truth; fingers crossed; heart skips a beat… ta da.

Rhododrendon’s last dance (Cee’s Flower of the Week Rhodie Buds challenge)

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https://ceenphotography.com/2021/04/09/fotd-april-9-rhodie-bud

This old rhododendron just out-did herself last year, so I’m not counting her out now. This plant has been in this spot for about 20 years, I planted it in my “tree garden” and it is one of few originals remaining… there is another plant that is about the same size as this one on the other side of the garden. Also there is a white smaller flowered Rhodie or similar plant that just shows normal winter wear and tear over by the second pink one.

I don’t know why this plant is such a wreck. It is possible that a deer (or crew of deer) ran through the shrub on their way through the tree garden. The deer and assorted other critters live back there.

(all photos ©Sometimes, 2021)